Definition of "zillah" []

• A district or local division, as of a province, in India. (noun)

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• "Downs the pilot came on board, from whom they received the news of the attempt recently made by Oxford on the life of the Queen; and here the captain, anxious to lose no time in reaching London, quitted the vessel as it entered the Thames, "the sources of which famous river, I was informed, were near a place called Cirencester, eighty-eight miles from London, in the _zillah_ (county) of Gloucester.""
• "Daccah zillah; depositions on the subject were obtained from nine different parties."
• "On the 16th and 17th of May, 1833, a fall of fish occurred in the zillah of Futtehpoor, about three miles north of the Jumna, after a violent storm of wind and rain."